According to "The 26th China Internet Development Statistics Report" ("the Report" for short) which was released by the China Internet Network Information Center, by the end of June this year, in China, the scale of netcitizens has reached to 420 million, the number of cell phone users who
using cellphones to surf the Internet has increased to 277 million, these people became the main driving force to pull up the scale of overall Internet users in china.
The Report showed that by the end of June 2010, the scale of China's Internet users has reached to 4.2 billion, the number of the Internet users increased 3600 million, compared with the end of 2009; the ratio of Internet popularization increased up to 31.8%, compared with the end of 2009, the ratio increased by 2.9 percentage points.
The mobile Internet shows great potential for development. The ratio of 277 million
cell phone users who use cell phone to surf the Internet to the overall Internet users Internet has reached up to 65.9%, among them, nearly 50 million cell phone users only use cell phone to surf the Internet, the proportion of the 50 million cell phone users (
China cell phone ) to the total number of Internet users has increased to 11.7%. The director of Internet Development department of China Internet Network Information Center, Liu Bing said that the cell phone netcitizens became the main driving force to pull up the scale of overall Internet users in china, and in the future, cell phone would gradually catch up with and surpass computer and become a main way to surf the Internet.
In addition, with the rapid development of business applications, the business value of the Internet continued to highlight, the degree of commercialization has a rapid increase. "Report" shows that at the first half year of 2010, the Internet applications of China's Internet users demonstrated a feature that the degree of commercialization had a rapid increase, the tendency of entertainment maintained and the value of communication and information tools enhanced. The top three network applications are still as follows: Online music, online news and search engine usage.
The performance of business applications is particularly conspicuous. The growth rate of Online shopping, online payment and online banking were all about 30%, the ratio was far more than other types of network applications. The scale of current users respectively reached to 142 million, 128 million, 122 million, among them, the utilization rate of online shopping has surpassed the forum, and online payment has become the fastest growth of web applications, the commercial value of the Internet continued to highlight, it showed a strong momentum for the development.
However, the business applications of Internet are still plagued by a variety of safety factors. Just at the first half of this year, there are nearly six-tenths users were attacked by the virus or Trojan in the process of using the Internet; the account or password of more than three -tenths users were stolen; Nearly nine-tenths visitors of e-commerce site worried about fraudulent websites. The issue of the network security and trust has become the biggest restriction for the deep-seated development of the network business, the development from Internet to the applications of Internet-based business transaction, need to establish a more credible and reliable network environment.
